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SELF REFLECTIVE AND SELF AWARE POSTMODERN TEXTS THAT DRAW YOUR ATTENTIO N TO THE FACT THAT THEY ARE CONSTRUC TIONS.

Self reflective and Self aware - Postmodernism

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Page 1: Self reflective and Self aware - Postmodernism

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TODAYS DEFINITION

“For Linda Hutcheon, the postmodern is much more an artistic style, recognisable by its self reflexivity and irony, especially in its relations to the practices and objects of the surrounding culture and the cultural past. Postmodern work often takes the form of parody, which has a highly divided and ambivalent relation to its objects of imitation” - M Fortier

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PRACTICES

Ways of doing things Traditional narratives in film Character Types Codes and Conventions Technical practices Props, costumes etc

A self reflective text will challenge these ways of doing things

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POSTMODERN SELF-AWARENESS

Texts are self-aware – it mentions itself, questions itself, it says what it is…

The boundary between audience and text is broken

Postmodern is METATEXTUAL

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SURROUNDING CULTURE

Acknowledging the social/culture background in which the text is produced

Often making ‘fun’ of that context

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GvVDHruEPQ

Can make serious comment on the issues in society

http://seekcartoon.com/watch/27324-the-simpsons-season-16-episode-10-theres-something-about-marrying.html#.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR4yQFZK9YM

Talks about current issues

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L2fsubA2-c

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CULTURAL PAST

Human history

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVmdCAT7Rc8

Past texts

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-eazu7FQEg

Can be critical of itself and its form

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvEXudbFhWU

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DRAWS ATTENTION TO THE CONSTRUCTED NATURE OF THE TEXT

Direct Address to camera

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF7wckdzHXY

Seeing the means of construction (cameras, obtuse editing, jump cuts,)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_NpFX6OaJg

Characters drawing attention to plot holes

Scream excerpt from 52:31

Referencing the media itself – The Simpsons and Fox Network, Use of ‘CNN’

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/04/the-simpsons-skewers-cable-news-print-media-video_n_4211143.html

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• Create a powerpoint using clips or images the internet

• Find another example for each point in the slide show that is in orange.

• Then next to or underneath it, explain how it is self-reflective or self-aware in this way…

YOUR TASK